Watchdog: Anti-bribery rules not enforced
監督單位：反行賄法並未被執行

Left to right, Toshiba Corporation chairman Atsutoshi Nishida, Transparency International head Hugette Labelle and Swiss bank UBS chairman Axel Weber sing along with the Davos Choir during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 26 last year.東芝公司總裁西田厚聰、國際透明組織主席郁瑞特‧拉貝勒與瑞銀集團總裁阿克塞‧威博（從左至右）去年一月二十六日在瑞士達佛斯，在參加世界經濟論壇年度會議時與達佛斯合唱團唱歌。

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An anti-corruption watchdog ranks the US and Germany as the most active at enforcing rules prohibiting multinational companies from using bribes in foreign markets, but said in October last year that half the world’s top exporters are doing little or nothing at all to investigate or prosecute offenders.

A new report from Transparency International showed only the US, Germany, Britain and Switzerland actively enforced the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Anti-Bribery Convention agreed upon by 40 major exporting countries.

The 1997 OECD convention prohibits bribes to win contracts and licenses, or to dodge taxes and local laws.

At the same time, 20 countries that together account for about 27 percent of the world’s exports, including G20 members Japan, Brazil, South Korea and the Netherlands, showed little or no enforcement, the watchdog said.

“The 40 countries, which represent more than two-thirds of global exports, would make it very hard to get away with bribery, if they lived up to the requirements of the OECD anti-bribery convention,” Transparency International head Hugette Labelle said in a statement.